An Aug. 18 wedding at Christ Church in Mequon is planned for Melissa Schlenvogt and James Alexander.

The future bride, a 2008 graduate of Port Washington High School, holds a degree in dance and communication from Hunter College in New York City and received her master’s degree in international business from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom in 2018.

Her fiance is a 2005 graduate of Katy High School in Texas who is expected to receive his bachelor’s degree in marketing from Colorado State University in 2019.

When I can’t garden I take horticulture classes, and this year plant diseases were a focus of several sessions, especially a fungus called boxwood blight.

It was first detected in plants in Virginia and Connecticut in 2011. By 2016 it had spread to plants in a dozen states including Illinois. Wisconsin is now trying to prevent it from gaining a foothold in the state.

I have had enough of winter, and despite the fact that snow will fall again before anyone reads this, I spent last weekend looking for signs of spring. And although it appears there’s nothing but brown debris in our garden, there are signs of growth around once I took the time to look for it.

Port Washington’s Mike Jajtner and the Town of Belgium’s Jim Bach often get a chance to see history up close and personal in a venue few have ever entered.

The veteran members of the Deep Six Dive Group in Port Washington have made many a memorable dives to shipwrecks in Lake Michigan, always finding something new.

“For me, it’s seeing something that has been down there for over 150 years and actually touching that and what good condition it is in,” Jajtner said. “You’re seeing things perhaps 99% of the population doesn’t see unless they watch videos done by divers.”